Wall Street Curb Market Hosts wry guides and slick schemes
In New York a street crowd of brokers and spectators watches a quirky curb market scene. The piece discusses mountain guides by brokers, the Webb Meyer stock fiasco, Vanderbilt-linked figures, and the era’s speculative excesses, with notes on wages of wine salesmen and child labor remarks in New Jersey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wall Street
Broad Street
Stock Exchange
Consolidated Exchange
Webb-Meyer
W. Seward Webb
W. H. Vanderbilt
Vermont
Welcher
Dr. Webb
Meyer
Meyer Line
Webb
Rutland Railroad
Meyer Holdings
New York
Hackensack Meadows
Horace Greeley
Manhattan Island
Nova Scotia
Lamb
Bear
Bull
Vanderbilt
William K
Monte Carlo
Adirondack
Vanderbilts
New Jersey
Murphy
Sds
Jersey
Indiana
Owen Langdon
New Treatment Promises Gentle Oscillator Therapy
A mocked medical advert touts a ten dollar X ray exam and a gratis offer. It claims an electric oscillator sends barely perceptible impulses through medicated air, energizing nerves, enriching blood, expelling toxins, and restoring healthy bodily vibrations.
Debilitated nervous cases offered a new treatment
A medical advertisement touts a new nonoperative treatment for nervous debility, insomnia, low vitality, and weak lungs. It claims rapid, permanent improvement from the first session and says even long-standing consumptives may recover. Doctor Horne offers free consultations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Horne
All Eyes on Texas Promises Dr Kings New Discovery
A Texas feature extols Dr Kings New Discovery for consumption and coughs. It claims cures for severe lung trouble, with promotions offering free trials and testimonials. Also promotes Botanic Blood Balm for skin diseases and claims broad healing, urging readers to buy locally.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Claco
King
Clendenin
Sally
Molino
Wi Pharmacy
Bt Ave
Shudder At His Past Mail Carrier Recalls Kidney Cure
Levanna Missouri resident Burnett Mann recalls years of kidney trouble with back pain and fatigue. He credits six bottles of Electric Bitters from Clendenin's Drug Store for a complete cure and renewed vigor. Trial price is sixty cents with satisfaction guaranteed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burnett Mann
Levanna
Clendenin
Madison Medicine Co Teas Courts Engagement Claim
Legal style notice notes Madison Medicine Co owns exclusive rights to Rocky Mountain Tea manufacture and accuses nonmade tea sales of deception. It warns against bulk sales and states packaging is 85 cents. FF. W Uhrus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison Medicine Co
Uhrus
Overlooked Verses and Catarrh Cure Advertisement Collage
A dated collage combines a poem fragment by G. E. Kiser from the Chicago Record-Herald about unrecognized talent, spring verses from the Washington Star lampooning seasonal motifs, and an old Hall's Catarrh Cure advertisement claiming a constitutional remedy with a money back promise. The piece blends literary scraps with early 20th century patent medicine rhetoric and promotional copy.
Train Schedules and Steamboat Arrivals at Rock Island
Rail timetable lists trains of Chicago, Burlington and Quincy with departures to St Louis Omaha and Kansas City plus connections at Savanna Davenport and Clinton. It details westward and eastward routes, Rock Island depot times, Peacock interchanges, and the steamer service to Muscatine Burlington and Clinton with Helen Blair W J Young JR City of Ona schedules.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A.m P.m
E. Moline
Suburban
St. P
Dubuque
Savanna
Clinton
Davenport
St. Louis
Rock Island
Peoria
Beardstown
Quincy
Burlington
Lincoln
Denver
Bavarian
Bt. IL
K. C
Barstow
Sterling
Des Moines
Kansas City
Topeka
Texas
Colorado
Colorado Springs
Bn Fort Worth
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Sioux Falls
Omaha
el Paso
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Fort Worth
Vees
California
Fast Mail
Moline
W. J. Young, JR
Muscatine
Helen Blair
W.W. J. Young
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Wall’ Street
Aewt Sa Ee
York
Wies
Marbor
Tranal
Kyecraper
Northwest
Harry, Lehr
Hao
Lehr
Sati
Chicago Post
Elas
G. E. Kiser
Chicago Record-Herald
Washington Star
Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
F. J, Chendy & CO
J. Alvin Horne
Mitchell & Lynde Bldg
DR Mott’s Chemical CO
Cleveland
J. Clendenin
Simon Lewis
17Th Street
Third Ave
Leais
F.a.sand
the Tailor
Thirty-Eighth Street
Fifteenth Street
Duncan & Ransom’s
Third Avenue
Moline, Illinois
J. W. Warr
Plowman Publishing Company
Job Printing Department
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Chicago
Rock Island & Pacific
Chicago, Milwaukee & Saint Paul
East Moline
Srcemespeccsll
LaCrosse
Freeport
Seceses
Sabula
Milwaukee
Iowa
Waenee
Via Unois
Cara
R. R
Springfield
Indianapolia
Cincinnati
Indianapolis
Bloomington
Cable Branch
Sherrard & Cable
Sherrard
Union Depot
Carnival City Packet Company
New Boston
Keithsburg
John H. Mueller
Second Avenue
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